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    m j $ 8 $$ ffl ^ $$ 4 tffe itflfetofr pro&ess Attidi isffajrte girand ^ ttf oF f ^ e ^^ 0 nj | ifig /* Wb&n Poij&jk l ooked hdoWfr upon a wandering teS ^ fd- * --lba alt that has been , now is , afrd will hereafter b $ , commenced . Amidst the elaborate attempts of Dr Buckland to reconcile the discoveries of Geology with the Bible account of Creation ,

    we t | o not propose to tire and entangle our readers . An erudite discussion to prove they are not incompatible , occupies the whole of the second chapter of his work . To the support of a belief that all the writers in Scripture were inspired , it may be necessary to establish the above coincidence ; but it is strange that men of science should still be found who can hold or

    promulgate such an opinion . It is a most gratuitous assumption of a claim to which the writers or compilers themselves never pretended and among the long list e > f errors which have afflicted the human race , it has been one of the most mischievous . How many truths it has retarded , how many miseries it has produced , would be difficult to enumerate . To the cause of revealed religion it has been a fatal

    enemy ; staggering many a miud which might have recognized in the Scriptutes the history of a revelation , but could tijif reconcile the numerous and startling difficulties that present themselves with the idea that the entire book which cbhtairis them ifc itself a direct whole and indivisible revelation . * 5 The plan , however , of the ' Bridgewater Treatises '—requiring that all thei abstract ttuths of science , old and new , should

    be made to fit every orthodox proposition of natural theology sis at present Cultivated—may easily account for Dr Bucfclapd ' s views in this respiect , not to mention his clerical profesion . ' . ' With all this confusion , and the controversies to which it gives rise , we have done long since ; but we have , neverthe ' - [ le&s , derived very great Pleasure from reading Dr Buckland'k

    interpretation of the opening verse of the Bible , and we are # ery much disposed to believe that it is the correct ohe : — " * in the be ^ inniag" GoA created the heavens and the earth . ' It is uowhere aflirmed that God created the heaven arid the earth in the first Ijtay , but * in the beginning ; ' this beginning may have been viai epoch

    it an unmeasured distance , followed by periods of undefined duration , liuring WMch aM the p hysical operations disclosed by geology Were going AMI ^* # ? fit , ' # No information is given Jas to events which inay liitfve toc ^ curxed upon the earth , uncownected with the history of man , be ^ vwee » the creatioifl of its . component matter ' recorded ia the first verse ^ d the ^ a / at ; wMcli its ' history 13 resumed in the second verse . * # \\\ , > § i MiUiow »« if iwilliohs of years may have occupied the indefinite ine ^ pvall ? etweew the be ^ imiing m Which Qpd created the hiavjej&a &i $ ' tj ^ e aa ^ th , a ^| i t ^ e evening or cQmmeiicement qf the first day of the Mosaic aaxrative /—pp , 21 , 22 * :

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/15/